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Netherlands: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

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Country: Netherlands Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 Year: 2025

Country overview

Netherlands

Current reading for Income quintile share ratio S80/S20 in a European context.

Eurostat indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Latest value

3.80 Ratio

European ranking

24 / 30

Worsened by 1 positions since the previous year

Compared with Europe

-0.7 puntos

Netherlands is 0.7 points below the European average.

EU: 4.53

Affected population

18.0M

Year: 2025

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Recent trend

Open trend

Latest: 3.76 Ratio Europe benchmark: 4.73 Ratio

Internal regions

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Indicator: Income quintile share ratio S80/S20

Granularity: Regions

  1. 1

    Noord-Holland

    +13.20

    4.30

  2. 2

    Zuid-Holland Zuid

    +2.60

    3.90

  3. 3

    Zuid-Holland Centraal

    +2.60

    3.90

  4. 4

    Limburg (NL)

    -2.60

    3.70

  5. 5

    Overijssel

    -5.30

    3.60

  6. 6

    Noord-Brabant

    -7.90

    3.50

  7. 7

    Groningen

    -7.90

    3.50

  8. 8

    Friesland (NL)

    -10.50

    3.40

  9. 9

    Gelderland

    -13.20

    3.30

  10. 10

    Drenthe

    -18.40

    3.10

  11. 11

    Flevoland

    -26.30

    2.80

  12. 12

    Zeeland

    -26.30

    2.80

More context on this indicator

At a glance

Netherlands performs more favourably than the European benchmark on Income quintile share ratio S80/S20, with a large gap. The trend context points to recent stabilization. The wider topic context points to broader relative strength. Regional evidence also shows internal variation.

European comparison in Netherlands

In Netherlands, S80/S20 ratio stands clearly better than the European benchmark: 3.76 versus 4.73 in 2025, a large gap of 0.97 in the ratio.

Recent trend

In the Netherlands, the medium-term pattern shows improvement: the value moved from 4.15 in 2020 to 3.76 in 2025. The latest value changes little from 3.72 in 2024, indicating a pause in the previous improvement.

Regional differences in Netherlands

In Netherlands, regional values for S80/S20 ratio are relatively close. Across 12 comparable regions, Noord-Holland records the highest value (4.3) and Flevoland the lowest (2.8), a gap of 1.5 in the ratio.

Reading within the topic

In Netherlands, the evidence for Income & Purchasing Power leans towards relatively favourable performance compared with Europe, without a clear pressure signal dominating the picture. Material recent changes among related indicators lean towards deterioration and warrant monitoring.